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ID: 374768

Title: Becoming Kid Quixote: A True Story of Belonging in America

Author: Sarah Sierra, Stephen Haff

Narrator: Kyla Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:28:52

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Health & Family

Summary:

A young readers companion to the adult memoir Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff.

Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes Don Quixote.

When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the words of Miguel de Cervantes. But at Still Waters in a Storm, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids have pushed together tables piled high with books so they can gather round to talk about and translate Cervantes classic, Don Quixote de La Mancha.

They begin to reimagine Don Quixotethe story of an idealistic dreamer from Spain who traveled around trying to right the worlds wrongsas the story of a group of modern-day kids from immigrant families in Brooklyn.

The stories the kids write in class become a musical playexpressing the plight of todays immigrants and using Quixote as inspiration. And Sarah, once very shy, soon will play the leading role as Kid Quixote.

Perfect for fans of I Am Malala, Dear America, and The Freedom Writers Diary, this stirring true story will inspire you to imagine, to speak up, and to sing out.

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ID: 391763

Title: Race the Sands: A Novel

Author: Sarah Beth Durst

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:47:29

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

National Velvet with monsters and a big helping of palace intrigue, Race the Sands is monstrous (literally), heartwarming, and empowering in equal measure. An incredibly fun and inspiring read. Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale

In this epic standalone fantasy, the acclaimed author of the Queens of Renthia series introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption, and deadly enemies in their quest to become monster racing champions.

Life, death, and rebirthin Becar, who you are in this life will determine your next life. Yet there is hopeyou can change your destiny with the choices you make. But for the darkest individuals, there is no redemption: you come back as a kehok, a monster, and are doomed to be a kehok for the rest of time.

Unless you can win the Races.

After a celebrated career as an elite kehok rider, Tamra became a professional trainer. Then a tragic accident shattered her confidence, damaged her reputation, and left her nearly broke. Now, she needs the prize money to prevent the local temple from taking her daughter away from her, and that means she must once again find a winning kehok . . . and a rider willing to trust her.

Raia is desperate to get away from her domineering family and cruel fiancé. As a kehok rider, she could earn enough to buy her freedom. But she needs a first-rate trainer.

Impressed by the inexperienced young womans determination, Tamra hires Raia and pairs her with a strange new kehok with the potential to winif he can be tamed.

But in this sport, if you forget youre riding on the back of a monster, you die. Tamra and Raia will work harder than they ever thought possible to win the deadly Becaran Racesand in the process, discover what makes this particular kehok so special.

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ID: 397993

Title: Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me

Author: Sopan Deb

Narrator: Sopan Deb, Sunil Malhotra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:29:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, History & Culture, Parenting

Summary:

A bittersweet and humorous memoir of familyof the silence and ignorance that separate us, and the blood and stories that connect usfrom an award-winning New York Times writer and comedian.

Approaching his 30 birthday, Sopan Deb had found comfort in his day job as a writer for the New York Times and a practicing comedian. But his stage material highlighting his South Asian culture only served to mask the insecurities borne from his family history. Sure, Deb knew the facts: his parents, both Indian, separately immigrated to North America in the 1960s and 1970s. They were brought together in a volatile and ultimately doomed arranged marriage and raised a family in suburban New Jersey before his father returned to India alone.

But Deb had never learned who his parents were as individualstheir ages, how many siblings they had, what they were like as children, what their favorite movies were. Theirs was an ostensibly nuclear family without any of the familial bonds. Coming of age in a mostly white suburban town, Debs alienation led him to seek separation from his family and his culture, longing for the tight-knit home environment of his white friends. His desire wasnt rooted in racism or oppression; it was born of envy and desirefor white moms who made after-school snacks and asked his friends about the girls they liked and the teachers they didnt. Deb yearned for the same.

Debs experiences as one of the few minorities covering the Trump campaign, and subsequently as a stand up comedian, propelled him on a dramatic journey to India to see his fatherthe first step in a life altering journey to bridge the emotional distance separating him from those whose DNA he shared. Deb had to learn to connect with this man he recognized yet did not knowand eventually breach the silence separating him from his mother. As it beautifully and poignantly chronicles Debs odyssey, Missed Translations raises questions essential to us all: Is it ever too late to pick up the pieces and offer forgiveness? How do we build bridges where there was nothing beforeand what happens to us, to our past and our future, if we don't?

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ID: 381285

Title: Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis

Author: Nicole Saphier

Narrator: Emily Durante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:55:27

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Politics, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Medicine, Public Policy, Fitness

Summary:

If Americans want to know why their health care is so costly and getting costlier, they need only look in the mirror.

Americans are notoriously unhealthywe eat too much, drink too much, and sit too much. When roughly 80 percent of cardiovascular disease and 40 percent of all cancer cases could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes, it is time to take a deeper look at the problem and ask who is truly responsible. Consider that:

          After seventy years of innovation, heart disease and cancer remain the top two causes of death in the United States.

         In 1960, health care spending was 5 percent of America's GDP; today, it is 17.5 percent.

         The government spends over $1 trillion annually on health care.

         Nearly one in five American deaths is associated with poor diets.

        Simply reducing sodium intake by 1,200 mg per day could save up to $20 billion a year in medical costs.

  In Make America Healthy Again, Nicole Saphier, a Memorial Sloan Kettering physician, nationally recognized patient advocate, and media personality, reveals how individual negligence and big government incompetence have destroyed Americas health care system. Combining historical events, economic trends, and essential lifestyle advice, with her unique perspective, she offers concrete solutions to address this epic problem.

We dont need socialized medicinewe need to take better care of ourselves. By getting healthier and adopting preventative measures, Saphier believes, we can reduce the astronomical costs of treatment and improve overall care. The only way to lower medical costs for everyone is to stop incentivizing bad health decisions. Policies such as the Affordable Care Act and single-payer plans ignore something crucial to lowering the overall financial burden: personal responsibility. We can no longer expect doctors and the government to fix illnesses we have the power to prevent. Regardless of which health policy is adopted, our nation will flounder unless we take action. It is up to the American people to make America healthy again.

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ID: 393418

Title: Madame Clairevoyant's Guide to the Stars: Astrology, Our Icons, and Our Selves

Author: Claire Comstock-Gay

Narrator: Lori Prince

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:22:42

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Essays & Anthologies, Social Science, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Not just a shimmering guide to our personal cosmologies written in precise and lucid prose, this book is also a devastating collection of cultural-criticism essays cum meditations on the very nature of being alive.Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of The Third Rainbow Girl

A soulful exploration of the twelve astrological signs embodied by our living starsfrom divas to philosophers, poets to punksand the ways they can help us better understand ourselves and each other, from the wildly popular astrology columnist for New York magazines The Cut.

Whether you believe in it or not, astrologys job has never been to give us a preordained vision of the future, nor to sort us into twelve neat personality types, but to provide the tools and language for delving into our weirdest, best, most thorny contradictions, and for understanding ourselves and each other in our full complexity. The stars and the planets then are more like mirrors that show us who we are, that give us an understanding of how to be and how to move through the world; how certain people do it differently, and what we can learn by studying them.

In Madame Clairevoyants Guide to the Stars, Claire Comstock-Gay brings the sky down to Earth and points to our popular starsfrom Aretha Franklin to Mr. Rogers, from poets in Cancer to punk singers in Scorpioto reveal what the sky has to teach us about being human. In this wise, lyrically written guide, she examines the twelve astrological signs, illuminating the ways each one is more complicated, beautiful, and surprising than you might have been told. Claire suggests that actually its okay, and even important, to be a seeker, to hunger for self-knowledge, and if astrology is the vehicle for that inquiry, so be it.

Madame Clairevoyants Guide to the Stars offers a clear introduction to the basics and an innovative new framework for creatively using astrology to illuminate our lives on earth. Its a road map to our internal world, yes, but Claire also reminds us that its still our job to navigate it. Combining both heavenly insights and the earthly wisdom of writers like Cheryl Strayed and Heather Havrilesky and the poetry of Patricia Lockwood and Mary Oliver, Madame Clairevoyants Guide to the Stars offers a fresh, profound, and fun way to look at ourselves and others, and perhaps see each more clearly. And in that way, this book is not just beautiful, but transformative.

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ID: 381708

Title: My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir

Author: Jason B. Rosenthal

Narrator: Baize Buzan, Jason B. Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:45:31

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husbands life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times.

On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for the New York Times ''You May Want to Marry My Husband.'' It appeared ten days before her death from ovarian cancer. A heartbreaking, wry, brutally honest, and creative play on a personal adin which a dying wife encouraged her husband to go on and find happiness after her demisethe column quickly went viral, reaching more than five million people worldwide.

In My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me, Jason describes what came next, even as he struggled with her loss. Surveying his life before, with, and after Amy, Jason ruminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer, and what it means to healhow he and their three children, despite their profound sorrow, went on. Jasons emotional journey offers insights on dying and death and the excruciating pain of losing a soulmate, and illuminates the lessons he learned.

As he reflects on Amys gift to hima fresh start to fill his empty space with a new storyJason describes how he continues to honor Amys life and her last wish, and how he seeks to appreciate every day and live in the moment while trying to help others coping with loss. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me is the poignant, unreserved, and inspiring story of a great love, the aftermath of a marriage ended too soon, and how a surviving partner eventually found a new perspective on lifes joys in the wake of tremendous loss.

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ID: 388866

Title: American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country

Author: Jack Jenkins

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:48:05

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Politics, Religious Studies, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

From one of the countrys most respected religion reporters, a paradigm-shifting discussion of how the Religious Left is actually the moral compass that has long steered Americas political debates, including today.

Since the ascendancy of the Religious Right in the 1970s, common wisdom holds that it is a coalition of fundamentalist powerbrokers who are the moral majority, setting the standard for conservative Christian values and working to preserve the status quo.

But, as national religion reporter Jack Jenkins contends, the country is also driven by a vibrant, long-standing moral force from the left. Constituting an amorphous group of interfaith activists that goes by many names and takes many forms, this coalition has operated since Americas founding praying, protesting, and marching for common goals that have moved society forward. Throughout our history, the Religious Left has embodied and championed the progressive values at the heart of American democracyabolition, labor reform, civil rights, environmental preservation.

Drawing on his years of reporting, Jenkins examines the re-emergence of progressive faith-based activism, detailing its origins and contrasting its goals with those of the Religious Right. Todays rapidly expanding interfaith coalition??which includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and other faiths??has become a force within the larger resistance movement. Jenkins profiles Washington political insidersincluding former White House staffers and faith outreach directors for the campaigns of Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Hillary Clintonas well as a new generation of progressive faith leaders at the forefront today, including:

- Rev. William Barber II, leader of North Carolinas Moral Mondays and co-chair of the nationwide Poor Peoples campaign

- Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Womens March

- Rev. Traci Blackmon, a pastor near Ferguson, Missouri who works to lift up black liberation efforts across the country

- Sister Simone Campbell, head of the Catholic social justice lobby and the Nuns on the Bus tour organizer

- Native American water protectors who demonstrated against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock

- Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop

An exciting reevaluation of Americas moral center and an inspiring portrait of progressive faith-in-action, American Prophets will change the way we think about the intersection of politics and religion.

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ID: 395581

Title: Dead Land

Author: Sara Paretsky

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:32:24

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

V.I. Warshawski is as dogged and ferocious as ever. So is Sara Paretsky, who is at the top of her crime novel game.

    C.J. Box

Chicagos legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her citys rotten underbelly better than most, but shes unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.

Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is Pay to Play. Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects.

Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamirs life fell apart when her lover was murdered next to her in a mass shooting at an outdoor concert. Not only does Bernie plunge her and V.I. headlong into the path of some ruthless developers, they lead to the murder of the young man Bernie is dating. Hes a computer geek working for a community group called SLICK.

V.I. is desperate to find a mysterious man named Coop, who roams the lakefront in the middle of the night with his dog. Shes sure he holds the key to the mounting body count within SLICK. Coop may even know why an international law firm is representing the mass murderer responsible for Lydias lovers death. Instead, the detective finds a terrifying conspiracy stretching from Chicagos parks to a cover-up of the dark chapters in Americas meddling in South American politics. Before she finds answers, this electrifying novel pushes V.I. close to the breaking point: People who pay to play take no prisoners.

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ID: 391750

Title: Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens

Author: Muhammad H. Zaman

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:04:02

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Medicine, Biology & Chemistry, Social Science

Summary:

Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.

In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiotic available. Her death is the worst nightmare of infectious disease doctors and public health professionals. While bacteria live within us and are essential for our health, some strains can kill us. As bacteria continue to mutate, becoming increasingly resistant to known antibiotics, we are likely to face a public health crisis of unimaginable proportions. It will be like the great plague of the middle ages, the influenza pandemic of 1918, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 all combined into a single threat, Muhammad H. Zaman warns.

The Biography of Resistance is Zamans riveting and timely look at why and how microbes are becoming superbugs. It is a story of science and evolution that looks to history, culture, attitudes and our own individual choices and collective human behavior. Following the trail of resistant bacteria from previously uncontacted tribes in the Amazon to the isolated islands in the Arctic, from the urban slums of Karachi to the wilderness of the Australian outback, Zaman examines the myriad factors contributing to this unfolding health crisisincluding war, greed, natural disasters, and germophobiato the culprits driving it: pharmaceutical companies, farmers, industrialists, doctors, governments, and ordinary people, all whose choices are pushing us closer to catastrophe.

Joining the ranks of acclaimed works like Microbe Hunters, The Emperor of All Maladies, and Spillover, A Biography of Resistance is a riveting and chilling tale from a natural storyteller on the front lines, and a clarion call to address the biggest public health threat of our time.

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ID: 383596

Title: War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

Author: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:22:26

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Political Advocacy, Political Ideologies

Summary:

An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval.

In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon the most dangerous political operative in America. Since then, he has grown exponentially more powerfuland not only in the United States. In this groundbreaking and urgent account, award-winning scholar of the radical right Benjamin Teitelbaum takes readers behind-the-scenes of Bannon's global campaign against modernity.

Inspired by a radical twentieth-century ideology called Traditionalism, Bannon and a small group of right-wing powerbrokers are planning new political mobilizations on a global scalediscussed and debated in secret meetings organized by Bannon in hotel suites and private apartments in DC, Europe and South America. Their goal? To upend the world order and reorganize geopolitics on the basis of archaic values rather than modern ideals of democracy, freedom, social progress, and human rights. Their strenuous efforts are already producing results, from the fortification of borders throughout the world and the targeting of immigrants, to the undermining of the European Union and United States governments, and the expansion of Russian influence.

Drawing from exclusive interviews with Bannons hidden network of far-right thinkers, years of academic research into the radical right, and with unprecedented access to the esoteric salons where they meet, Teitelbaum exposes their considerable impact on the world and their radical vision for the future.  

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